Survivors seek answers over illegal adoptions

Call for explanation over ‘buried’ illegal birth registration evidence

Campaigners have called on the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to explain why it “buried” evidence on illegal birth registrations it was given by the Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI) in 2015.

It comes as the Irish Examiner revealed yesterday that the State’s regulatory body for adoption sent three reports on illegal birth registrations — including a spreadsheet of 90 cases — to the department in 2015, three years before the St Patrick’s Guild illegal birth registrations scandal broke.